The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-21
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

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REV. j. A. MAcCoLL of St. Adams has
returned from his European journey.
THE net receipts of the e-breeders
meeting are estimated to have been over
$4,000.
The annual meeting of the Vermont
Soldiers Home will be held at Bennington
October 6.
JUDGEJ. NJ. TYLER has entered upon his
new duties as Judge of the supreme court at
Burlington.
The acting postmaster-general has APP
pointed Charles g. Emerson postmaster at
East Thetford.
THE new Lake Champlain steamer,
Chateaugay," will be ready to launch i'll
about four weeks.
THIRTy-NINE cases of unhappy marriages
in Rutland county are shown by the county
court calendar for this term
Ex-GovERNoR SMITH has given $500 to
the Gettysburg monument fund and Gen
eral j. G. Mccullough $500.
HARvLIN PADDOCK of st. Johnsbury has
been granted a patent for coin-operated
measuring and weighing machine.
CHARLES HoIsINGToN of Rochester trapped
and shot a bear on the mountain which
weighed about one hundred pounds.
JOHN Pollock of Buck Hollow, in Fair
fax, committed suicide Sunday by hanging
to tree on neighboring mountain.
DR.. f. j. HENDEE, for many years we'll
known citizen of Burlington, died suddenly
Sunday of apoplexy, aged sixty-fve years.
LEVI FIELD, an unmarried man about
forty-eight years old, became violently in
sane ut the Globe Hotel, Rutland, Saturday.
A MAN was run over by locomotive on
the Glastonbury road near Bennington and
both legs were severed from his body, also
one finger.
The Free Baptist church at Sutton has
voted with great unanimity not to accept
the resignation of its pastor, A. p. Tracy,
who recently received call to Alton.
THE driver of " Goldfnder," at the horse
breeders meeting in Rutland, struck boot
black on the head and face with whip
lash and the boys condition is serious.
JAMES MORRILL,, son of Senator Morrill,,
has gained seventeen pounds since he has
been in Vermont of the flesh lost during his
terrible attack of typhus fever in Washing
ton.
JUDGE HENRY RICHARDSON died at West
Springfield September 18th, aged eighty-nine
years. He was postmaster of Westfeld for
twenty-three years and assistant judge OF
Orleans county court.
FIVE of the judges of the supreme court
of Vermont were born in the same year.
1S35-Powers, Veazey, Taft, Rowell and
Tyler. Chief justice Royce was born in
1919 and Judge Ross in 1926.
GEORGE II. BIGELow of Burlington had
an apopectic or paralytic shock on Friday,
and was insensibe for five or six hours. He
rallied from it, however, on Saturday and
seemed about as usual of late.
A STRANGER, calling himself John Morris,
was found in his room in Newport hotel
Friday morning with his throat cut 1t is
not fatal He was evidently insane. The
residence of his friends is unknown.
LAoMI WARE, aged forty-six an employee
of the Estey organ works in Brattleboro,
fell downstairs at his home Sunday, frac-
turing his skull, and died from his injuries
Monday. He leaves a wife and child.
REV. A. Z. DUTToN has resigned the
pastorate of the Congregational church at
Royalton to accept the superintendency of
the Home for Aged and Infrm Ministers
located near the Chatauqua grounds at
birmingham, Mass.
THE Vermont state board of agriculture
will hold fall meeting at Grand Isle Octo-
Der 9TH and 9th. The citizens of the islands
will unite i'll making this county affair,
and will give in connection with it a large
exhibition of fruit, vegetables, etc.
A GENTLEMAN from Michigan is reported
as having been in Bennington recently
claiming ownership of most of the town of
Bennington and part of York state
under patent issued during the reign of
George H., king of Great Britain and Ire
land.
FIVE boys from ten to fifteen years old
We're arrested in Walden last week for steal
ing from freight-cars. Their operations
have extended over several months time.
A hearing was had recently, and they were
put under $500 bonds each and committed
to jail.
SUPERINTENDENT MELLEN says that the
scheme to get Boston papers up here before
noon did not prove financial success. 1t
cost the five Boston papers that entered into
rYla .ln 70 fln rafV
during the two months it was in operation
CdiedOnidn.
AT the annual meeting of the E. * L.
Fairbanks & Co. Scale Company recently
the treasurer's report showed receipts of
S2,243,000; discount Sl,0j5,0 900; net sales,
$1,27S,0OO. Net profits, $4,000 The com
pany employs go men and turns out 900
scales per week.
A BARN and adjoining sheds on the Muz-
zey farm, near Middlebury, now owned by
G. A. Chapman, were destroyed by fire Sun
day. One horse, valuable trotter, several
wagons and other farming implements,
with twenty tons of hay, We're burned The
loss is $1,000; insurance 81 600.
GEORGE l.. SEvEy has just perfected the
little working engine of marble on which he
has been engaged in leisure hours for four
years past. The engine is a complete work.
ing model, built of thirty-siX different kinds
of marble, and runs smoothly and quietly
by means OF compressed ar - HUUdHd
Herald.
THE annual meeting of the st. Johnsbury
& Lake Champlain railroad was held last
week Thursday at st. Johnsbury. The di-
rectors elected were: G. s. Mellen (presi-
DENT, Horace Fairbanks, George w. Hen
dee, III. Il. Folsom, S. G.. Shurtletf w a.
Stowell (treasurer), G. f. A. Bartlett Cash
ier), III. e. Turner, w. f. Simonds, f. w.
Morse Clerk.
AT st. Adams Henry McKinnon, en-
ployed as brakeman, while on top of a
freight-train during the process of shifting
fell between the cars and was run over, his
legs and body being badly mangled. He
was carried to his boarding place and given
every possible attention, but he died Mon,
day He was unmarried and has a mother
living at Lawrence, Mass.
In the matter of the fatal accident to John
S. Adams, who was deaf, at a highway
crossing on the Central Vermont railroad
in Bethel, August ID last, the board of rail
road commissioners attributes the cause OF
the accident mainly to the character of tn,
crossing, which seems to be one calling fol
the intervention of the supreme court, Oh
the petition of free-holders, as provided by
sections 1889 and 1890 of the Revised Laws
MARK SKINNER of Chicago died at Man
chester, VT, the 10Th. He was born il
Manchester September II, 1913, and was
son of Richard Skinner, for many year!
governor of Vermont and chief justice o
the state. He has resided in Chicago sine
1886. He was distinguished in legal ant
financial circles, was Judge of the circui
pourt and uuriup the war WAS the head n